| Cross Index | Bartonella |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Rickettsias & Chlamydias |
| Compare | Rickettsiaceae: Cowdria, Coxiella,
Erhlichia, Neorickettsia,
Rickettsia, Rickettsiella,
Rochalimaea Wobachia Bartonellaceae: Bartonella, Grahamella Anaplasmatacae: Aegyptianella, Anaplasma, Eperythrozoan, Haemobartonella |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Bartonella |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | . Gram-negative. Not acid-fast. Stain poorly or not at all with many aniline dyes, but satisfactorily with Romanowsky's or Giemsa's |
| Morphology | In stained blood films the organisms appear as rounded or ellipsoidal forms or as slender, straight, curved or bent rods, occurring singly or in groups. They characteristically occur in chains of several segmenting organisms, sometimes swollen at one or both ends and frequently beaded. In the tissues they are situated within the cytoplasm of endothelial cells as isolated elements or are grouped in rounded masses |
| Motility | . In cultures the cells possess unipolar flagella |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid | May be cultivated on cell-free media |
| Growth Parameters | Bartonella |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | Aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Growth occurs at 28 and 37`C, with greater longevity at 28`C |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | The organisms occur spontaneously in man and in arthropod vectors ... (Phlebotomus spp.); |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Etiological agent of human bartonellosis. |
| Distribution | found only in the Andes region of South America |
| Genome | Bartonella |
| G+C Mol % | unknown |
| Reference | Bartonella |
| First citation | Strong,R.P., E.E. Tyzzer and A.W. Sellards. 1915 Oroya fever, second report. J. Am Med. Associ 64: 806-808 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 717 M. Ristic and J.P. Kreier |
| References |